Alec  🇦🇺 👨‍💻

@alecthegeek@mstdn.social
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Old school software geek, atheist, and sexagenarian (because I'm sexy?).

Sometimes uses naughty words.

Be excellent to each other!
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Interested in #DevRel, #Docker, #Linux, #Python, #Go, Programming Tech, Tech education, #DocsAsCode, and #Stoicism. Currently learning how to integrate #Obsidian into my workflows.

Location: Bunurong Land, Melbourne, Australia

Pronouns: he/him (https://pronoun.is/he)

Contact details on my vanity site, no time wasters please!

Personal Sitehttps://alecthegeek.gitlab.io/
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alecclews/
GitLabhttps://gitlab.com/alecthegeek
GPGhttps://keyoxide.org/hkp/BF8AE8CC9DA3C1E3C5BD0CDD3FE7B98F9BBBFC7C

I am trying to close my #QantasAirways account after recent data breach. They don't make it easy.

Plus the account security is very poor.The use SMS 2FA in some places and Auth App TOTP in others (if you enable it).

I struggled to set a new 4 digit PIN as the UX is so piss poor

And I can only use 4 digit PIN. No facility for a secure password/passphrase or a passkey.

Brace yourself, Summer is coming.

#sun #retrocomputing #meme #imadethis

A brief history of gun control in America:

NRA: We need unlimited firearms to stop tyrannical government

Black people: Sounds good, we are open carrying in California

NRA: Not so fast. We're banning firearms

[ICE raids California, targets Black and brown people with illegal arrests]

Black and brown people: Hey NRA, here's that tyrannical government you mentioned

NRA: Oh, we meant tyranny against white people. We're perfectly good with fascists targeting you

The End

Just read this article on the AU Gov age verification trial for social media (laws coming in to keep under 16 off social media).

Scant on details and full of equivocation. I am not confident they can make this work.

I am also not happy about the excuse to collect even more info about me.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-20/age-assurance-trial-preliminary-report/105440288

#AUS #Politics #SocialMedia

Trial finds age assurance can be done, as under-16s social media ban deadline looms

A company contracted by the government to assess technologies for verifying the ages of online users says it can be done privately, robustly and effectively.

ABC News

git commit -am "Many changes again"

Sometimes I scare myself

if you work in a garbage collected language it's imperative you reduce allocation as much as possible otherwise so the garbage collector doesn't ask too many questions and realize your whole code is garbage

Over the last 12 months I have been helping local seniors with #CyberSecurity

It's shameful how hard *we have made it for everyone to be safe online.

I'm not even asking for privacy here, just basic financial and account security.

I feel ashamed.

* I mean us computer geeks

Did you know there's an API that returns a boolean True if Mercury is retrograde? Now you do. https://mercuryretrogradeapi.com/about.html
Mercury Retrograde API

This is worth a read if you work in the tech industry (or even just use their products as we all do)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/11/big-tech-muslim-workers-gaza-israel

As big tech grows more involved in Gaza, Muslim workers are wrestling with a spiritual crisis

Is working in big tech halal? Muslim workers are reckoning with the possibility that their jobs go against their religious obligations

The Guardian